Re: [Organizers] Taking admission

2017-12-31 Thread Peter K Martel via Organizers
I was hoping Lisa would chime in. I would only add: At the weekly Monday Dance in Nelson our open fiddle case is in the hall by the door and the fee is only $3. Generally a smallish crowd. And we collect the cash earlyish in the evening. Sent from miHand, Peter K Martel On Dec 31, 2017,

Re: [Organizers] Lower attendance this year?

2017-12-20 Thread Peter K Martel via Organizers
CDSS should maybe take on a coordinating effort to be a resource and clearing house for ideas to engage others, older and especially young, even proactively promote these efforts. Related I wonder if there are any efforts to actively engage college students. I am considering approaching our

[Organizers] Re: Facebook join requests

2020-06-01 Thread Peter K Martel via Organizers
Hmmm, I don’t know FB well enough to know the answer to this, but is it not possible for someone to follow without “joining” which I assume means being able to post, or to offer posts that are filtered until trusted? I know Google Groups can do this. FB is such a cluster. > On May 31, 2020,

[Organizers] Re: Booking callers for the fall?

2020-06-02 Thread Peter K Martel via Organizers
On Jun 2, 2020, at 2:42 AM, Walker Sloan via Organizers wrote: > > it is damn near impossible to invent a better COVID-19 super event than > contra dancing. Imagine even a single spreader in the hall. Exactly. Someday we’ll dance again. I can’t figure out why folks can’t figure out that at

[Organizers] Re: Seeking news on covid infections from dances with vaccination

2021-08-16 Thread Peter K Martel via Organizers
We are in NH, the second lowest transmission state 69/100k in the last 7 days, and VT is the lowest w/ at 66.5/100k. We aren’t even considering reopening until 2022. Is there any better way to spread a virus to the community than a contra dance? Well, maybe, but very few… Sadly, there are